Different routes to organising 


Two unions have reached a deal paving the way for voluntary recognition at a new air crew base at Heathrow Airport run by Irish company CAE. 


CAE has signed an agreement — with BALPA for pilots and the Unite general union for cabin crew — which states that it recognises the right of employee to join a union if they wish to do so and to have union representation and collective bargaining.


Budget airline Ryanair, on the other hand, refuses to recognise unions. However, a group of pilots — describing itself as a “central committee” — has launched a bid to achieve a proper structured negotiating body by combining the current multiple, divisive “employee representative committees” (ERCs) set up by Ryanair. 


The group has circulated a letter to pilots explaining that it aimed to replace the ERCs with a “central structured body, ready to act as fully recognised negotiating partner for all contractual issues”.

https://www.balpa.org/Media-Centre/Press-Releases/New-agreement-paves-way-for-union-recognition-in-a

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/02/ryanair-pilots-union-michael-o-leary